Wireless to Wired Connection

[riddelrp]

Ok, I have a Netgear 802.11g wireless router. In the next room I have 3 computers without wireless cards in them which I need to get on the network. I have a little 4 port wired router which I want to feed off the wireless connection, then I could hook up the computers to the wired router. So the question is how to make a wireless connection wired so I can feed it into the WAN port of the wired router?

Thanks in advance.

 

[amdskip]

Wireless adapter on one machine and then run ICS on it to share to the router. There is probably a better solution out there than this though.

 

[ktwebb]

You wouldn't use the WAN port on the second router. You'd simply use the switch ports. You also wouldn't use ICS. If you wanted to use a PC as a bridge then you'd bridge a wireless connection from a PC with a wired one then uplink the switch with a patch cable from that computers wired NIC to the switch. That or buy a wireless workgroup bridge or AP that has a client or ethernet bridge mode that will work with your wireless router.

 

[fuxxociety]

Yep. A wireless bridge is your answer. You don't need to use ICS or get into anything complicated. Most hardware wireless routers out there now have a wireless bridge function built-in to the router.

 

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help.

Link to: Wirelessly Bridging Home / Network.

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[riddelrp]

Originally posted by: fuxxociety
Yep. A wireless bridge is your answer. You don't need to use ICS or get into anything complicated. Most hardware wireless routers out there now have a wireless bridge function built-in to the router.

I looked at Newegg and they only have 2 wireless bridges and the one that is in stock was ~150 which is way more then a wireless router. You mentioned that wireless routers now have wireless bridge functions built-in to the router. Is there any chance you could suggest one or two which work on 802.11b/g? The wireless router I have already is a Netgear if it helps to get the same brand.

Thanks.